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8TB Western Digital My Book Portable Hard Drive (Certified Refurbished) $100 + Free Shipping

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NoVAslickhuntin
04-30-2024 at 11:58 PM.
04-30-2024 at 11:58 PM.
This is a desktop drive not a portable one
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05-01-2024 at 06:53 AM.

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05-01-2024 at 06:53 AM.
I have purchased a 4gb WD refrub by WD from ebay in the past and it died after a year. It was only used to store xbox games which I played rarely.
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05-01-2024 at 06:59 AM.
05-01-2024 at 06:59 AM.
Quote from rocketman80 :
I have purchased a 4gb WD refrub by WD from ebay in the past and it died after a year. It was only used to store xbox games which I played rarely.
That's a bummer for sure! Out of curiosity, was it one of the thin/portable (USB Only, no power) drives, or one of these larger AC + USB drives?

I've had a few of the USB Powered ones die on me, but never the larger ones. Just purchased one of these as I missed the 16TB sale a few weeks ago, hoping for the best with the refurb!
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darme1988
05-01-2024 at 07:07 AM.
05-01-2024 at 07:07 AM.
Extremely tempting to replace my current external failing drive for ps5
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05-01-2024 at 07:19 AM.
05-01-2024 at 07:19 AM.
As I understand, the drives inside are white labels so not much of a deal IMHO
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05-01-2024 at 09:34 AM.
05-01-2024 at 09:34 AM.
These are SMR, not CMR. 10TB and up is CMR.
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05-01-2024 at 10:06 AM.
05-01-2024 at 10:06 AM.
Quote from rocketman80 :
I have purchased a 4gb WD refrub by WD from ebay in the past and it died after a year. It was only used to store xbox games which I played rarely.
If you're going refurb for important data, it better be a backup of a backup.
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ndj123
05-01-2024 at 10:11 AM.
05-01-2024 at 10:11 AM.
Quote from sleepybubba :
As I understand, the drives inside are white labels so not much of a deal IMHO
Whats "white labels"?
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unrealparadox
05-01-2024 at 10:48 AM.
05-01-2024 at 10:48 AM.
I have one of these and it has this "feature" called preemptive wear leveling. It vibrates every 5 seconds or so...
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muthukumaran.1234
05-01-2024 at 10:50 AM.
05-01-2024 at 10:50 AM.
I don't think this is a deal....one can get new ones at the same price...14 bucks a TB for a new is what one can look at..
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muthukumaran.1234
05-01-2024 at 10:51 AM.
05-01-2024 at 10:51 AM.
Quote from muthukumaran.1234 :
I don't think this is a deal....one can get new ones at the same price...14 bucks a TB for a new is what one can look at..
Saving 12 bucks for a refurbished one is not a good idea..especially storage...unless u have redundancies or dont care if u lose data..
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05-01-2024 at 11:48 AM.
05-01-2024 at 11:48 AM.
Quote from muthukumaran.1234 :
I don't think this is a deal....one can get new ones at the same price...14 bucks a TB for a new is what one can look at..
Where? External 8TB WD My Book drives are $174 on Amazon.
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thecalip
05-01-2024 at 11:53 AM.
05-01-2024 at 11:53 AM.
Need to get 12GB or higher. Anything lower will be a lot hotter as they are not using helium.
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FozzyFozborne
05-01-2024 at 02:03 PM.
05-01-2024 at 02:03 PM.
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I have purchased a 4gb WD refrub by WD from ebay in the past and it died after a year. It was only used to store xbox games which I played rarely.

Did the *drive* die or did the *enclosure* die?
The enclosures, SATA -> USB controller, or something else in these (portable and desktop) fail with frightening frequency.

If you have anything vaguely valuable on that drive, it might be worth it to get a $7 enclosure and see if you can just swap it over.

I've done that with… oh man… 30(?) Seagate and WD drives for people over the years.

It might be encrypted, though, which would. Require you sacrifice an enclosure/drive to get the data back.
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